Garment-fastening tape



Oct. 21, 1930. D. SILBERMAN GARMENT FASTENING TAPE Filed April 1. 1930 J ENTOR David WWW??? Patented Oct. 21, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DAVID SILBERMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO WALDES KOH-I-NOOR, ING, OF LONG ISLAND CITY NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK GARMENT-FASTENING TAPE Application filed April 1, 1930, Serial No. 440,713, and in Germany February 11, 1930.

My invention relates to a tape member to be used in co-operation with a hook tape, such as is used in hook and eye tapes, for securing the edges of garments and the like together, and-it is my object to produce a tape member co-operating with the hook tape which will lie flat and not bulge or gape open in use and which will have great strength in resisting the tensional pull of the hooks and in which the bills of the engaged hooks will be buried between plies of fabric and not come into contact with the body or undergarments of the wearer.

The wire eyes in the ordinary eye tapes of commerce are sewed or riveted to the surface of the fabric tape by stitches or rivets passing through the base loops. This leaves the forward end of the eye which engages the hook free to swing and in use the tensional strain of the hook lifts the forward end of the eye off the tape and causes the latter to wrinkle, bulge and gape open and to roll back uncovering the hooks. My improved tape eliminates these defects.

In the drawing Fig. l is a plan view of my improved tape without sewing or a cover flap;

, Fig. 2 a like view showing a modified form of fastening device wlth straight sewlng; Fig.

3 alike View of my tape with tack sewing; Fig. 4 a like view of my tape with overhand sewing; Fig. 5 a sectional view of my tape with a cover flap; Fig. 6 a sectional view of my tape with a padded edge; Fig. 7 a sectional view of my tape engaged with a hook tape; and Fig. 8 a plan view partly broken away, showing the tape engaging a hook tape.

In the form shown the tape consists basically of a strip of fabric folded on itself to form four plies, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Fastening members 5 of tube-like form are provided with flanged edges and pass through perforations in the fabric and their flanged edges are compressed or clinched together with the fabric between them so that the raw edges of the perforations are tightly gripped between the flanges. This produces a fastening device in the plane of the fabric and not on one face thereof so that the pull of the cooperating hook does not tend to lift the fastening device or wrinkle the fabric. The pull is also dis- .tributed over the entire circumference of the fastening device 5 instead of being concentrated as in the base loops of a wire eye.

In the form shown these fastening devices 5 are afiixed or clinched through the upper plies 1 and 3 and spaced back from the forward folded edge. These fastening devices may be of any desired material and shape, round ones being shown in Figs. 1, 3, 5 and 6 and D-shaped ones in Figs. 2 and 4.

A line of stitching is then preferably run down the tape and over a portion of the fastening devices 5 to hold the plies of fabric together and to hold the rear of the fastening devices tightly to the sewed together plies.

In Fig. 2 the line of stitching 6 is straight, In Fig. 3'the line of stitching is straight until it reaches a fastening device when-the tack stitches 8 are formed around the rear of the fastening devices. In Fig. 4 the line of stitch ing 9 is straight until the fastening devices are reached when it is overhanded at 10 and sewedround and round the rear of the fastening devices. I do not limit myself to the various forms of stitching shown and described.

In Fig. 6. I have shown a line of adding 11 in the form of a soft cord in the orward,

folded edge between the plies 1 and 4 which aids in maintaining the flatness of the tape on a garment.

- As shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 a cover flap 12 may be sewed down on the plies of fabric holding the fastening devices 5 to cover and protect them on their exposed faces.

In use the tape is sewed to one edge of a garment and any suitable hook tape it is' sewed to the other edge. hooks are then inserted into the fastening devices 5 and their-points lie between the plies 1 and 2 of the tape as'best shown in Fig 7.

By this construction the pull of the hooks is in the plane of the tape and it lies flat under tension without bulging or gaping ,such as occurs when wire eyes are sewed to the face of the tape by base loops and with free forward ends engaging the hooks.

My tape is quickly, cheaply and easily produced by automatic machines which fold the fabric, insert and clinch the fastening de vices and make the final fold. The stitching gether and engaging a portion of each fastenand cover flap may be added either by the ing device.

automatic machine or this may be done manin testimony whereof I have hereunto subually by a sewing machine operator, scribed my name. I cla1in:- DAVlD SELBERMAN.

1. A garment fastenin tape comprising a strip of fabric folded on itself into upper piles and lower plies, a plurality of alined, spaced fastening devices of tube-like form provided with flanged edges passing through the upper plies only of the strip and having the raw edges of the fabric tightly clinched between the flanged edges of the fastening devices, said fastening devices being spaced back from the folded edge of the strip.

2. A garment fastening tape comprising strip fabric folded on itself into upper plies and lower plies, a plurality of alined spaced fastening devices of tube-like form provided with flanged edges passing through the upper 5 plies only of the strip and having the raw edges of the fabric tightly clinched between the flanged edges of the fastening devices, said fastening devices being spaced back from the folded edge of the strip, and a line of 90 stitching securing all the plies together and engaging a portion of each fastening device.

A garment fastening tape comprising strip fabric folded on itself into plies, a plum rality of alined, spaced fastening devices @5 of tube-like form provided with flanged edges passing through the upper plies of the strip and having the raw edges of the fabric tightly clinched between the flanged edges :5; of the fastening devices, said fastening devices being spaced back from the folded edge of the strip, a cover strip extending over the fastening devices and a line of stitching securing the cover strip and all the plies to- 411 gether and engaging a portion of each fastening device.

4. A garment fastening tape comprising a strip of fabric folded on itself into upper plies and lower plies, a plurality of alined,

spaced fastening devices of tube-like form provided with flanged edges passing through the upper plies only of the strip and having the raw edges of the fabric tightly clinched between the flanged edges of the fastening so devices, said fastening devices being spaced 1 5 back from the folded edge of the strip, and a strip of padding secured in the folded edge.

5. A garment fastening tape comprising strip fabric folded on itself into plies, a plurr. rality of alined, spaced fastening devices of we tube-like form provided with flanged edges passing through the upper plies of the strip and having the raw edges of the fabric tightly clinched between the flanged edges of the fastening devices, said fastening devices be- 1% ing spaced back from the folded edge of the strip, a strip of padding secured in the folded edge, a cover flap extending over the exposed fastening devices and a line of stitching sec; curing the cover flap and all the plies tome 

